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successively

[suhk-ses-iv-lee] / səkˈsɛs ɪv li /








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The Commerce Department usually publishes three sets of quarterly GDP, each successively more accurate, but Thursday’s update—the second—will serve as the final third-quarter pass.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 22, 2026

Most cases went 5 to 4 with majorities shifting successively on each side.

From Slate Jan. 15, 2026

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon Dec. 20, 2025

That success made Real the first team from any nation to lift the trophy three times successively in the Champions League era.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2025

This enabled the two Voyagers to use a "gravity assist" technique in which the craft were successively flung from one gassy giant to the next in a kind of cosmic version of "crack the whip."

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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